Get an Automated Sensitive Data Inventory for your Cloud

As you and your development team continue building out your cloud infrastructure to manage your company’s compute, you continue to innovate using your company’s data. Data that can be critical and at times even sensitive to compliance mandates.

As you and your fellow developers design on the cloud, it is important to be cautious of:

• Default write configurations on data stores
• Third party applications have read/write permissions to your data
• Publicly exposed data stores
• Potential data flows to other countries
• Unencrypted data stores
• Duplications of sensitive data

All this happens because teams move quickly. It’s not because they’re bad developers, it’s just because of human error. Human error is a certainty, which in effect is a risk that we need to mitigate. Your cloud UI’s won’t point these things out to you, you have to navigate hundreds of screens and find them yourselves.

This is a perfect opportunity for software to come in and do the job of ensuring that your cloud data is configured following Cybersecurity best-practices.

Here are a few fundamental NIST tenets of Zero Trust, see how they apply to DSPM below:

1. All data sources and computing services are considered resources.
2. The enterprise ensures all owned and associated systems are in the most secure state possible and monitors systems to ensure that they remain in the most secure state possible.
3. The enterprise collects as much information as possible about the current state of network infrastructure and communications and uses it to improve security posture.

Guardium Insights DSPM reduces your organization’s cloud risk by finding all your sensitive data and guiding you to fix its vulnerabilities.

Any data source is considered a resource. If you're not aware of it, you can't secure it. It can be difficult to find a data source in the maze of screens that your cloud is.

DSPM will go through your entire cloud and find instances of sensitive data (for example: health data, credit cards, crypto wallets) and also read its metadata to find vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

“Collect as much information as possible about the current state of the network” by having a clear, continuously updated, and autonomous vision of where all your sensitive data resides, what kind of sensitive data it is, and even what compliance mandates it maps to.

Complex cloud environments that leverage many stores of data to execute computations often do so in a way that doesn't account for Cybersecurity best-practices. It is essential to know about all these stores of data before we can secure them… it is easy to forget about data we left in a VM with duplicate data somewhere out in our cloud (especially as we scale our development teams up).

Once we know about the data, we need to know how it is vulnerable to the external world. See the data vulnerabilities and remediate them by gaining recommendations and the ability to click directly into your cloud account.

Find out how you can do this effectively. Let me guide you. Send me a message or sign up for the free trial to find vulnerabilities across your Cloud Accounts (AWS, GCP, Azure) or SaaS Applications (Slack, Jira, Confluence, Sharepoint, O365, Google Drive)!

Acquire an automated sensitive data inventory for your cloud.

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